JLL's Expansion Plans Gel in Dallas, Atlanta

[IMGCAP(1)]DALLAS-Jones Lang LaSalle Inc., mapping out expansions in select metros, has added market directors in Dallas/Fort Worth and Atlanta. The Chicago-based firm has been quietly advancing the plan for two years, with the end nearly in sight to put 15 leading professionals at the helm of target cities.

The Dallas/Fort Worth leader is James Yoder, a 22-year industry veteran who joined the firm last year as a managing director along with several other key players from Trammell Crow Co.’s former camp after its merger with CB Richard Ellis. Atlanta’s new market director will be Clark S. Gore, another 20-plus-year veteran who comes on board March 1. GlobeSt.com has been told that another market director will be disclosed in a few weeks and decisions are being made about the last two markets.

JLL’s market directors will be liaisons among practice groups and their national leaders and local quarterbacks to expand respective shops, whether it’s the head count, service lines or both. “My role is to be the external face of JLL in the market and continue the momentum we have in the market, win more business and make JLL the best in Dallas,” Yoder explains about the newly created role in Dallas. “My job is to pull all the practice lines together, make sure they’re communicating and leveraging off each other’s business.”